Office 365 Personal supports the Office apps on one PC and one tablet.

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Better-late-than-never effort will please its core audience, but others have moved on.

The newest addition to Microsoft's range of Office 365 subscriptions is now available. For $6.99 a month, or $69.99 a year, Office 365 Personal lets you use Office on one PC or Mac and one Windows tablet or iPad.

The Personal plan slots in below the Home plan (formerly known as Home Premium), which costs $9.99 a month, or $99.99 a year, which supports five PCs or Macs and five tablets in the same house.

Both subscriptions also include 20GB of OneDrive storage and 60 minutes of global Skype calls per month. Both are also licensed only for "home" use, with "business" use requiring different subscriptions; the Small Business Premium subscription, for $12.50 a month or $150 a year, appears to be the closest equivalent.

The new plan could be particularly appealing to users of Microsoft's recently released Office for iPad. The iPad apps allow read-only access to Office documents to anyone, but restrict editing to Office 365 subscribers. The same subscription requirement used to be a feature of the iPhone and Android phone apps, too, but this requirement was lifted when the iPad apps were released.